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How countries around the world do single-payer health care

"Sanders will introduce Medicare for all bill Wednesday, with lots of support"

California can learn by looking at how other places run universal plans


Delegates, other convention attendees and demonstrators make their desires known in support of single-
payer universal healthcare while attending the California State Democratic Convention on
Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

By Patrick May | [e-mail] | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2017 at 11:40 am | UPDATED: June 3, 2017 at 3:27 am

As California takes a few fledgling steps into the world of single-payer health care, with state senators this week voting to create a $400-billion universal system, lawmakers might want to look at how other places around the world have implemented such plans.

The challenges facing single-payer proponents are daunting: lawmakers in the Assembly must first sign off on Senate Bill 562, the state will need to figure out how to fund such a tax-hungry behemoth, and a two-thirds vote in both chambers would ultimately be needed to get the thing off the ground.

While Sacramento crunches the numbers and figures out how to sell taxpayers and businesses on what could be a 15-percent payroll tax to fund the program at a cost of $200 billion each year going forward, here’s how five countries around the globe have pulled off their own individualized version of what many heath-care reformers in California now aspire to:

BOTSWANA .. DENMARK .. GERMANY .. CUBA .. AUSTRALIA
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/02/slideshow-how-countries-around-the-world-do-single-payer-health-care/

As expected it's been a long, fretful and fearmongering fight for you guys.

2009 - Death panels are one of the most venal anti-healthcare reform Steele endorsed Republican fictions .. they toy with the deepest of fears
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The idea that private insurers will disappear under a universal plan is another fictional furphy pushed by the anti-universal crowd.

Nope. Medicare is not universal. Public sponsor, but not universal.
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For 9 years many of us have been saying when universal healthcare comes to the
U.S.A. it will be in the form of a universal system and a private system mix.

2009 - Nope. Medicare is not universal. Public sponsor, but not universal.
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One day you will have universal healthcare coverage, and a few things are absolutely certain after that day. You will have a public private mix.
You will spend relatively less on healthcare with improved results. None of the excellence in your present system will disappear. The general
public will be in better physical and mental condition. And, there will be many many fewer medical bankruptcies. All super-duper good results.

The GOP and others with fanciful and freaky fears about anything with a tinge of socialistic tendency should stop playing Hans Brinker and get with the job.